Global Warning, a Medill National Security Journalism Initiative graduate student project, has won a prestigious 2011 Online Journalism Award. Winners were announced on Sept. 24 at the Online News Association annual conference in Boston. Global Warning was a finalist in the “Multimedia Feature Presentation, Student” category.
Graduate students in NSJI’s inaugural Specialization Program in National Security Reporting last Fall traveled the globe, investigating the effects of climate change on national security. They produced a powerful and informative interactive package that broke news about the government’s failures to address climate change, the military’s preparations for climate disasters and the security threat of a changing global environment.
The project immediately caught the attention of security experts and prominent media organizations after it was featured in major media outlets in the U.S. and around the world. Three stories in the Global Warning series were published in The Washington Post. Others were picked up by McClatchy Newspapers’ Washington website and sent to hundreds of publications across the nation.
